ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU, The Revenant
(20th Century Fox)
TOM MCCARTHY, Spotlight
(Open Road Films)
ADAM MCKAY, The Big Short
(Paramount Pictures)
GEORGE MILLER, Mad Max: Fury Road
(Warner Bros.)
RIDLEY SCOTT, The Martian
(20th Century Fox)
The DGA has this year created a new category
Outstanding Directorial Achievement for a First-Time Feature Film Director
The nominees are:
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ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU
The Revenant
(20th Century Fox)
Mr. Iñárritu’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Drew Locke, James W. Skotchdopole, Doug Jones
First Assistant Director: Scott Robertson
Second Assistant Directors: Megan M. Shank, Matthew Haggerty, Jeremy Marks
Unit Production Manager: Gabriela Vazquez (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
First Assistant Director: Adam Somner (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
Second Assistant Directors: Trevor R. Tavares, Jasmine Marie Alhambra (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
Second Second Assistant Directors: Brett Robinson, Kasia Trojak (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
This is Mr. Iñárritu’s fourth DGA Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in 2014 for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). He was also nominated in this category for Babel in 2006. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for “Best Job” (Procter & Gamble) in 2012.
TOM MCCARTHY
Spotlight
(Open Road Films)
Mr. McCarthy’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: D.J. Carson, Michael Bederman
First Assistant Director: Walter Gasparovic
Second Assistant Director: Penny Charter
Assistant Unit Production Manager: Danielle Blumstein (Boston Unit)
First Assistant Director: Christo Morse (Boston Unit)
Second Assistant Directors: Conte Matal, Kristina Mariko Peterson, Annie Tan, Andrea O’Connor (Boston Unit)
Second Second Assistant Directors: Phil Robinson, Mark Romanelli (Boston Unit)
Additional Second Assistant Director: Scooter Perrotta (Boston Unit)
This is Mr. McCarthy’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.
ADAM MCKAY
The Big Short
(Paramount Pictures)
Mr. McKay’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Louise Rosner
First Assistant Director: Matt Rebenkoff
Second Assistant Director: Amy Lauritsen
Second Second Assistant Director: Cali Pomés
Second Second Assistant Director: Josh Muzaffer (New York Unit)
Location Manager: Michael Kriaris
This is Mr. McKay’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.
GEORGE MILLER
Mad Max: Fury Road
(Warner Bros.)
Mr. Miller’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Dean Hood
First Assistant Director: PJ Voeten
Second Assistant Directors: Samantha Smith, Wendy Croad, Chris O’Hara
Second Assistant Directors: Eddie Thorne (Syndey Unit), Emma Jamvold (Syndey Unit)
Second Second Assistant Directors: Danielle Blake (Syndey Unit), Joshua Watkins (Syndey Unit)
This is Mr. Miller’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.
RIDLEY SCOTT
The Martian
(20th Century Fox)
Mr. Scott’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Francesca Cingolani, Miklós Tóth
First Assistant Director: Raymond Kirk
Second Assistant Directors: Sarah Hood, Bogi Móricz
Second Second Assistant Director: Nick Thomas
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All of those are completely irrelevant. Spotlight or The Big Short are winning BP!!! The race is over.
(I’m just going the ‘I don’t care about your arguments’ route, following your example.)
“You can win without a SAG nom, without an editing nom, without a director nom etc etc.”
But not without TWO of those – which is what The Revenant’s situation is.
It’s not even on my top 20 of the year. And I still have to do a lot of catch up: “Carol”, “Room”, “Anomalisa”, “Shaun the Sheep”, “Ex Machina”… I gave “The Revenant”, a rotten rating. It’s not a bad film, per se. Just boring, pretentious and overlong.
I was right, in the end, and in a way that made sense to me before – it did get snubbed, but also didn’t get zero.
Yeah. I actually think Frost/Nixon is incredibly underrated. I know it’s been dismissed as a middle-brow biopic, but I think the script is fantastic. And frankly, I never understood why Frank Langella wasn’t a frontrunner for the win. Michael Sheen should’ve been nominated as well.